House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office launched a new effort Tuesday to highlight President Obama’s real legacy as president, not the rosy one Obama is trying to portray to voters in his last half-year in office.
“No one’s being fooled,” Ryan’s office said in a post leading off a series called The Real Obama Liberal Legacy, or TROLL.
“The real Obama legacy is one of sprawling liberalism, divisive identity politics, bigger government, and America ceding leadership in the world,” it added.
The first example Ryan’s office raised is when Vice President Joe Biden called the summer of 2010 the “summer of recovery.”
“Remember how well the economy recovered that summer? Yeah … we don’t either,” the post said. “In fact, with the middle class disappearing and wages stagnant, we still haven’t really recovered. A new nonpartisan study shows that the president’s policies ‘produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.'”
Ryan’s office said the Obama administration blew its chance at a recovery by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on things like subsidies for the failed green energy company Solyndra, and millions more on other things like a tortoise eco-passage tunnel.
It noted that then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declared in an op-ed “welcome to the recovery,” which was followed days later by a report that the U.S. lost 131,000 jobs.
The note highlights the GOP’s own plan to improve the economy, which includes cutting regulations, producing more affordable energy, ending financial bailouts and ending lawsuit abuse.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misidentified the vice president. The Washington Examiner regrets the error.
